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Inman/607x' UNITED STATES PATE-NT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. HONISS, OF HARTFORD,CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO FELIX W. LEINBACH AND CLARENCE A. VVOLLE, BOTH OF BETHLEHEM, PA.

PAPER BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 353,307, dated November 30, 1886.

Application filed March 20, 1886. Serial No. 195,908. (No model.)

lowing description and claim constitute the specification, and which is illustrated in the accompanying two sheets of drawings.

rIhis invention is a paper bag, the peculiarities of which may be learned by comparing Figures l, 3, 5, 7, and 9 ofthe drawings with Figs. 2, 4, 6, 8, and l0, respectively, the lirstmentioned figures showing the nearest approach of the prior art and the last-mentioned figures showing this invention.

Figs. l and 2 are views of flat sheets of paper cut into shapes for use in making prior bags and this bag, respectively. Figs. 3 and 4 are views of tuckedpaper tubes, which may be made by folding and pasting the sheets ol' Figs. l and 2, respectively. Figs. 5 and 6 are views of bag blanks, which are made by opening up and folding down the lower ends of the tucked tubes of Figs. 3 and 4, respectively. Figs. 7 and 8 are views of square-bottom paper bags, which are made by folding and pasting down the llaps ofthe bag-blanks of Figs. 5 and 6, respectively. Figs. 9 and l0 are views of the square-bottoni paper bags of Figs. 7 and 8, respectively, when opened out as in use.

A is a flat sheet of paper, successively cut from a strip of paper, so that the material which constitutes its projections B and C is the same that is cut away from a succeeding u sheet, in order to create recesses likethose which on this sheet are lettered D and E. The sheet A also has the short longitudinal slits F and G eut in its lower edge.

H is a length of tucked-paper tube, which may be made by folding the sheet A 0n the six dotted lines indicated in Fig. 2, and by pasting the side borders of that sheet together; or it may be successively cut from a continuous tucked-paper tube in such a manner that the material which constitutes its lip I is. the saine that is cut away from a succeeding length, in order to create a recess like that which in Fig. 4 is lettered J.

K is a bag-blank, which is made by opening up the lower end of the tucked tube H and then folding the opened-up portiondown into the diamond form L in a manner well known in the art of paper-bag making, so that the flap M shall have the quadrangular extension N and the flap O shall have the recess I? in one of its two thicknesses of paper. The extension N results from the existence of the slits F and G in the tube H, and the recess l? results from the existence of the recess J in that tube.

Q is a square-bottom paper bag, which is made by folding and pasting the aps M and O down upon the middle part of the diamond, of which they form parts.

The novelty of this bag resides in the fact that the material which constitutes its thumblip I is the same that is cut away from a corresponding bag to constitute its recess I). The

formation of such a recess not only furnishes material for the necessary thumb-lip, but it also results in a better bag-bottom than would otherwise be mad e. This superiority consists in the fact that the absence of the material cut away to form the recess l? enables the outer as well as the inner thickness of` the flap O t0 be pasted to the middle part of the diamond L, and also causes the bottom of the bag to be more fiat and less clumsy than it would be with the redundant material unremoved. The pasting of the outer thickness of the ap O down upon the middle part of the diamond closes a certain crevice which would otherwise exist in the bottom of the completed bag,

and would be objectionable there by reason of its aptness to receive and secrete portions of the merchandise contained in the bag when in use. has precisely the same amount of paper as that of Fig. 7; but on account of being constructed according to my invention it is in three respects superior thereto. These matters, though comparatively minute when contemplated as pertaining to but one paper bag, are of great importance in the manufacture of so many millions of paper bags as are every year required by the people of the United States.

I claim as my inventionm A paper bag the square bottom of which has the flaps M and O folded down upon the Thus it appears that the bag of Fig. 8

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middle quadrangnlar portion of the diamond paper cnt away from another paper bag to L, and in which the two side folds of that diai form a recess, P, therein, all substantially as mond lap over each other entirely across that shown and described.

middle quadraugular portion, and n which -ILLIAlVI H. HONISS.

5 one of the aps O and M has the recess Cut Witnesses:

away from the inner thickness thereof, and ALBERT H. VALKER, which bag has the thumb-lip I made from the VVILLARD EDDY. 

